On 14/06/2012 dmnz wrote:>is claw hand dup-something-or-other contracture?>
Yep. When the bones keep setting at the wrong angle and past the point of no return and keep going. Eventually u end up with a useless hand.

On 14/06/2012 stugang wrote:>Nope dmnz is talking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupuytren%27s_contracture>>Shorty is talking about keeping on smashing things until the things that>smash get smashed.>>I have the beginnings of the former on both hands (hereditary) but none>of the latter...yet....

On 15/06/2012 shortman wrote:>On 14/06/2012 stugang wrote:>>Nope dmnz is talking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupuytren%27s_contracture>>>>Shorty is talking about keeping on smashing things until the things that>>smash get smashed.>>>>I have the beginnings of the former on both hands (hereditary) but none>>of the latter...yet....>>Your right Stu, it aint that. That's an old mans disease.

Dupuytren's unfortunately doesn't seem to go away, even after surgery. It keeps coming back so no there is no cure but isn't necessarily an old man's disease as you put it. I know of people getting it in their 30s etc if not earlier. If not congenital then it's partly overuse so not surprising for climbers who use their flexors a lot.

Claw hand on the other hand, so to speak, is a nerve pathology I think.

On 14/06/2012 shortman wrote:>Has anyone had surgery to reset the metacarpals in their hands? And if>so, did it work?>>Any boxers or street fighters lurking out there on Chockstone?

So anyway (help me out here all da doctors in the house) It's when u brake the metacarpals punching hard things. Let's say hypothetically that the joint (articulation) of metacarpals to wrist should be articulated at angle *. When u brake them and they reset outside of angle * then they continue to go in the direction that they set. Ultimately you end up with a deformed and pretty useless hand.

On 6/08/2012 shortman wrote:>When u brake them and they reset outside of angle * then they continue>to go in the direction that they set. Ultimately you end up with a deformed>and pretty useless hand.>>Anyone? I hate going under the knife with a fuggin passion!

and your passion was?
Maybe take up beating on chockstoners. It is nearly as much fun, specially when you get stuie or simey to bite!

On 6/08/2012 Duang Daunk wrote:>On 6/08/2012 shortman wrote:>>Anyone? I hate going under the knife with a fuggin passion!>>and your passion was?>Maybe take up beating on chockstoners. It is nearly as much fun, specially>when you get stuie or simey to bite!

I reckon some chockstoners have been beating up on him, thus the need to go under the knife. not such a pretty face now...